FM8 XML Cookbook problem with StructureView window

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August 26, 2010
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I'm trying to follow the introductory lessons in the cookbook and on page 14, it says to open the Structure View page. I can open the page, but it's blank! The structapps.fm file is open, has text and I can view the Element Boundaries, but there is nothing in the Structure View window. Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I have some other setting wrong? Any help would be appreciated

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MoxamollAuthor

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Ah - I knew it was something silly! I was clicking in the first paragraph, but didn't try lower down - I guess I know now to check more carefully where the element markers start.

And the follow up answer is good too, I'll probably run into that as well, and now I'll think to look at that first.

Thanks, both of you!

Van Kurtz

Inspiring

But the first paragraph should be structured also. A document cannot be mixed structured and unstructured, or at least should not be. If an unstructured document is converted to structure, there may be content that is still outside elements; but once that is cleared up, FrameMaker does not allow you enter text outside the root element.

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Russ Ward

Legend

Van is correct, let me add some clarification... a FrameMaker document contains many flows. Often, we only really use the main flow (A) on the body pages, but you can have flows all over the place (text box callouts, reference page stuff, etc.). In structured FM, any given flow is either structured or not... that is, all of the text is either wrapped completely by at least one element or not. So, it is not possible to click in one paragraph of a flow and see no structure, but see structure for the next one. It is possible, though, if you have clicked from one flow into another.

Russ

Van Kurtz

Inspiring

The Structure View displays the element structure of a structured document, but the insertion point has to be somewhere inside the structure. Therefore, in your document, click inside the text flow.

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Russ Ward

Legend

And with that, if you click in the flow and the Structure View is still blank, that means the flow is not structured. If you see elements in the element catalog but nothing in the Structure View, the document has an EDD imported and you have the capability to structure any flow, but your current flow is unstructured.

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